Caramel-cutter



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GARAMEL GUTTER. N0. 253,466. Patented Feb. 7,1882.

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CARAMEL GUTTER. No. 253,466; Patented Feb. '7,' 1882.

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ISAAC-H. WRIGHT, OF BALTIMQRE, MARYLAND.

CARAMEL-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent- No. 253,466, dated February 7, 1882.

Application filed August 10, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

, Be it known that I, IsAAo H. WRIGHT, of the city of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in CarameLCutters, of which the following is aspeciication; and I do hereby declare that in the same is contained a full, clear, and exact description of my said invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The primary object of this invention is to obviate the adhesion of the knife to the mate-` rial from which the earamels are made, or, in other words, to effect a clean cut with the knife.

In the description of the improved machine which follows reference is made to the accompanying'drawings,torming a part hereof, and in which- Figure I is a side elevation of the machine. Fig. 1I is a plan of the same. Fig. III is a longitudinal section of Fig. II, taken on the Figs. I-V andV are end elevations of the machine as seen from different points. Fig. VI is an enlarged view of a part of the machine.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts in all the views.

Ais the frame of the machine, and B a plate adapted to slide thereon.

C is the driving-shaft, supported in a suitable stand, D, projecting upwardly from the 4frame A, having either a hand driving-wheel,

E, as shown in the drawings, or a pulley adapted to be rotated by a belt.

F F are crank-wheels, the one, F, being attached to the end of the driving-shaft Gand the other, F', to an auxiliary shaft, a, which receives its motion from the said drivin g-shaft through the medium of the gears G.

H is the knife-frame, connected to the crankwheels by means of crank-pins b. The knife, which is represented by'I, is secured adjustably to the lower end of the knife-frame.

K is the cutting-board, upon which the materia-l to be cut is placed, and it is securedV in any suitable manner to the plate B. The cutting-board and plate have an -intermittent movement longitudinally of the frame A, effected by means of the following-described mechanism:

A miter-gear, c, is secured to the driving.

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shaft C and engages with a similar wheel, d, on the counter-shaft c. Lis an arm at the end of the counter-shaft e, which is grooved lengthwise and provided with a pin, c', adapted to he slid in said `groove and secured at any point therein. Thispin, when moved from the center of the counter-shaft, gives motion to the rod f, connected therewith. 'lhelower end ofthe rod f is pivoted to one arm of a bell-crank, M, placed loosely on the shaft N, running transversely of the frame A and underneath the plate B. The other arm of the bell-crank is 4provided with a pawl, h, the free end ofwhich bears env the periphery of a ratchet-Wheel, t', and communicates an intermittent motion thereto in one direction only.

O is a pinion secured to the shaft N and in gear with a rack, k, projecting from the under side of the plate B.

The arm L is graduated in order to guide the operator in setting the pin e to effect different sizes of caramels.

In connecting the knife-frame directly to the pins of the crank-Wheels F F the knife is made to have a lateral as well as a vertical movement. Consequently a shearing cnt is produced, which prevents the adhesion or stick ing of the knife to the material cut. It will be understood that aftereach cnt the cuttingboard, with its contents, is moved forward a distance which is governed by the position of the pin c with reference to the center of the shaft e. The material to be cut, which is in the form of a sheet, is placed on the cuttingboard and against a guide-strip, l, and the machine putin motion. The sheet is then cut or separated into parallel bars, Without any further attention of the attendant. The bars are then placed side by side and longitudinally of cutting-board, the first bar resting against the guide-strip l, and the machine again placed in motion. The bars are then cut transversely or into blocks ready to be wrapped. It will be understood that after each cutting operation the cutting-board and plate must be drawn back to their original posit-ion, and to admit of this the pawl h must be disengaged from the teeth of the ratchet-wheel.

In Fig. V the knife-frame is shown in two positions, one of which is indicated in full, the other in dotted, lines.

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sliding plate adapted to have an intermittent longitudinal motion, carrying a removable cuttinglooard'7 to the upper surface of which the edge ofthe said knife descends at each stroke f5 or revolution ot' the crank-wheels, all combined substantially as specified.

ISAAC H. W RIGHT.

Witnesses:

GHAs. E. LEWIS, JNO. T. MADDOX. 

